Written answers
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
7:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent to which rent and mortgage support has been increased by her on a monthly basis over the past two years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25598/09]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible persons living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from another source.
Similarly, mortgage interest supplement provides short-term income support to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is their sole place of residence. The supplement assists with the interest portion of the mortgage repayments only.
The number of recipients and expenditure on rent supplement and mortgage interest supplement on a monthly basis for the past 2 years is shown in the attached tabular statement. Recipients and Expenditure on Rent Supplement and Mortgage Interest Supplement, June 2007 to June 2009
Rent Supplement | Mortgage Interest Supplement |
Recipients(1) | Expenditure(2) | Recipients(1) | Expenditure(2) | |
Month | â'¬000 | â'¬000 | ||
June 2007 | 58,667 | 31,495 | 3,571 | 924 |
July 2007 | 58,643 | 32,892 | 3,672 | 1,029 |
August 2007 | 58,675 | 33,398 | 3,768 | 1,080 |
September 2007 | 58,650 | 31,218 | 3,812 | 1,080 |
October 2007 | 58,926 | 33,642 | 3,889 | 1,245 |
November 2007 | 59,053 | 33,746 | 3,999 | 1,238 |
December 2007 | 59,726 | 34,045 | 4,111 | 1,375 |
January 2008 | 59,804 | 33,621 | 4,204 | 1,380 |
February 2008 | 60,858 | 33,445 | 4,456 | 1,494 |
March 2008 | 61,297 | 33,308 | 4,623 | 1,606 |
April 2008 | 62,165 | 35,112 | 4,781 | 1,769 |
May 2008 | 62,859 | 36,436 | 4,624 | 1,885 |
June 2008 | 63,650 | 33,961 | 5,212 | 1,857 |
July 2008 | 64,820 | 37,952 | 5,526 | 2,341 |
August 2008 | 66,204 | 36,197 | 6,028 | 2,357 |
September 2008 | 67,519 | 38,381 | 6,400 | 2,738 |
October 2008 | 69,729 | 40,173 | 6,935 | 3,065 |
November 2008 | 71,766 | 38,429 | 7,516 | 3,201 |
December 2008 | 74,038 | 43,771 | 8,091 | 3,981 |
January 2009 | 76,079 | 39,705 | 8,828 | 3,950 |
February 2009 | 79,706 | 39,458 | 9,877 | 4,377 |
March 2009 | 82,986 | 45,194 | 10,872 | 5,020 |
April 2009 | 85,517 | 44,054 | 11,565 | 5,146 |
May 2009 | 88,268 | 43,622 | 12,529 | 5,226 |
June 2009 (3) | 89,243 | 12,887 | ||
(1) Recipients is at last Friday in Month
(2) Total Expenditure in Month
(3) Recipients is at 19/6/09 / Expenditure is not yet available for June 2009
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